Episode Report Card Sars: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Out And About
By Sars | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.26.2001
Thank god this is almost -- oh crap, three more dilemmas. Dilemma 4: While chilling with your "crush" and watching movies, he starts making his move and you start getting weirded out. Kerr begins well by saying that we should just tell the guy to back off for the moment. Then he sets the time machine for 1954: "Let me tell all you women out there what guys want: a challenge. They want mystery. If you sleep with them on the first date, it's over. Take it one step at a time and it'll stay interesting." Yeah -- for whom, Ozzie and Harriet? If we wanted to hear from the authors of The Rules, we'd read their crappy books. The last thing a teenage girl needs to hear is that she's undesirable -- and deservedly so -- if she puts out. So let's all say it together: shut up, Kerr. And your publicist. Dilemma 5: After a great date, you find yourself awkwarding it up on the doorstep. Kerr tells us to kiss the boy because he loves "women who make the first move." Kerr? You live in a fifties spank porno. Also, shut up. Also, welcome to the twenty-first century. You can't have it both ways, Madonna-Whore Not-Complex-Enough. In addition, shut up. No such luck, as he adds, "The strongest moments in films are when nothing is said, and that's just as true in life." Amen, brother. SO SHUT UP. And put down that Uta Hagen book before someone gets hurt. And so we arrive at Dilemma 6: The day after the big date, he's in the hall with his posse and you don't know whether or not to go over and say hi. Kerr describes "the perfect scenario" as girl goes over, girl says hi and I had a great time, "no kiss or anything." I get the feeling that Kerr's real perfect scenario involves a French maid's outfit and a blowjob, but let's just move on to the Out article, shall we? The Out article is…pretty damn boring, actually. The accompanying pictures make it worth the price of admission (one shot in particular, of a well-muscled-but-not-too-well-muscled Kerr in a tank top, is succulent in the extreme), but there's not much in the article that fans and forum regulars haven't heard before. We do learn that his role as Jack on DC has helped to develop gaydar, and that at first he "was nervous about getting typecast [as a gay man]. But it didn't happen." Then Roswell's Brendan Fehr compliments him, saying that Kerr is "very easy to work with." Then we have a moment with co-executive Creek producer Greg "Milton" Berlanti, who says that Kerr "reminds [him] of guys who were in [his] fraternity in college" -- and, based on his fratty bubelatty remarks in Seventeen, that doesn't surprise me -- "but in a second he becomes this introspective gay teen." Then we find out that Kerr debuted as an actor in a Burlington Coat Factory ad, which makes me giggle uncontrollably for some reason.